Transcripts For CSPAN3 20170303 : vimarsana.com

Network cspan. This weekend, the cspan cities tour along with our Comcast Cable partners will explore the literary life and history of san jose, california. Saturday at noon eastern on book tv, hear about Silicon Valley, home to many of the Worlds Largest high tech corporations including google, facebook and apple. Tech Business Reporter ethan barron of the mercury news talks about the success and challenges Silicon Valley has had on san jose and the region. Silicon valley is booming. It is absolutely rampant and that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. Then author Larry Gersten talks about not so golden after all. If you know anything about california, among other things im a nativeborn californian and i studied this state 50 years or more, you realize that this state is so topsyturvy, like a roller coaster gone bad. It can be a boom state economically, one year. It can be in the hole 30 billion the next. On sunday, at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv, we will take you to the beginnings of san jose as we visit the peralta adobe. The pueblo was moved from its original location to this location here in downtown san jose. The adobe you see behind us is the last remaining structure of that pueblo that was built in 1797. Then go inside the lick observatory, home to one of the largest refractor telescopes in the world. Astronomy in the late yoon 00 1800s and early 1900s was going through a heyday of discovery. This telescope was the largest of its kind in the world in 1888. Watch cspan cities tour of san jose, california saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Who will win student cams grand prize of 5,000 . Join us at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on march 8th for the announcement. This year we asked middle and High School Students to produce documentaries telling us what is the most urgent issue for our new president and congress to address in 2017. We received over 2900 entries from 46 states plus the district of columbia, england, germany, singapore and taiwan. Students competed for the chance to win 100,000 in cash prizes in first, second and third place categories. You can log on to our website, 30 minutes before our big announcement, to view all 150 winning documentaries at student cam. Org. Be sure to watch the announcement of our student cam 2017 grand prize winner wednesday, march 8th at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Next, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, discusses a number of Global Threats including isis, north korea, iran and russia and what the u. S. Is doing to address them. He spoke at the Brookings Institution in washington, d. C. Recently for about an hour